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...central concern of this curricular review, as with its predecessors, will be Harvard’s effectiveness in providing general education for its students—and whether the Core succeeds in doing...
Though there is a consensus among professors and administrators that the Core is broken and needs to be fixed, how to mend the system—or whether to scrap it completely—is a controversial issue on which faculty have a diverse array of opinions...
...Core is where the students get breadth, get common intellectual experiences,” says Harris. However, he characterizes it as “in need of rethinking...
...major questions facing the General Education committee are whether the structure of the Core is the most efficient one for providing a foundation to the Harvard curriculum and whether the theory of a general body of knowledge—on which the Core is based—is a sound...
...structure, students complain the Core adds too much rigidity to their academic schedules. To reserve seven spaces in their plans of study for requirements is too great a restriction, many say. Also, many resent the relative difficulty, under the current system, of counting departmental courses for Core credit...